LE Vanity Armor Slot / Vanity System Idea

[tekhiun]

So I have been searching for a mod that would allow me to use vanity items, i.e putting on a equipment on that slot would only alter the visuals and not the stats. After researching a bit about the topic I found out that there is only 1 mod that does this however it is less than ideal as it changes the stats of all instances of that armor in the game.

I have very limited experience with modding, mainly just adding enchanted items, but I have come up with a few ideas about implementing a vanity system and I have no idea if they are possible to implement or not. So I would just post them here and see what you guys have to say about it.

 

1st idea:

The first idea I had was to transfer the stats of an item to another. I am not sure how to do that, perhaps a non visible enchantment with a custom script or dynamically creating a new object. Of course there would be a requirement that the slot of the items have to match and to an extent type as a well, as for example to avoid having a bow that looks like a sword and vice versa, ( but perhaps possible to have a mace that looks like an axe ?). Also it should only apply to that instance of the item and not all instances like the transmogrification mod does.

This could be implemented in many ways

 

- Magical Armor Dummies

You put the armor you want the appearance of in one dummy and the armor you want to keep the status of in another dummy, you press a switch or cast a spell and the stats are transferred

 

-Lore friendly spells

Basically a capture form spell that would capture a object stats , which you would have to cast on the item you want the appearance and a cast form spell which would them transfer the status captured.

- Via UI
Self explanatory

2nd Idea:

Hide the graphics of the PC and exchange it with a cloned version wearing the armor you want the appearance of. The player would interact with an item or a npc ( which could be summoned) and specify which i tem would be the cosmetic item for each slot via menus. SkyUI also has a feature to create quick slot sets , which could probably be used to create a cosmetic set.

Anyway are any of these ideas viable ? If would anyone be willing to work on a mod like this or at least point me in the direction of how I should go about to do it by linking some tutorials ?

If you have any other idea of how to go about doing this please share !